Fuse holding means



Fgzl- INVENTORS aduww/lwu ORNEY Jan. 15, 1935. w. H. FRANK ET AL FUSE HOLDING MEANS Filed March 26, 1932 Patented Jan. 15, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FUSE HOLDING MEANS Electric Products Company, Detroit, corporation of West Virginia Mich., a

Application March 26, 1932, Serial No. 601,332

6 Claims.

This invention relates to fuse holding means. sometimes known as fuse clips, and aims to provide a novel and superior form of holder or clip.

It will best be understood upon reference to the appended drawing whose Figs. 1 and 2 show in end view and in top plan view, respectively, a fuse holder of the invention.

The fuse holder shown comprises a fuse blade receiver 8 hingedly connected to a stationary leg of the holder 9 by a three part or double hinge 10. The receiver has lugs 12 embracing opposite sides of the fuse blade or contact 13 to be inserted into and clamped in the holder, and the contact will be clamped against the abutment 14 when the double hinge pintles are in a line perpendicular to the plane of the abutment 14.

It will be observed that the receiver or clamping member is moved and carried by and with the fuse blade or contact on insertion and withdrawal of the latter, positively and with no possibility of remaining behind, due to the interlock provided by the embracing of the blade 13 by the lugs 12. The receiver is provided with a handle 15 whereby it may be manually withdrawn from the holder, 2 when no blade 13 is clamped therein, to prepare the holder for the reception of a blade 13.

Now having described the invention and a preferred embodiment thereof, reference is had to the following claims for a determination of the scope of the invention.

What I claim is:

1. A combined contact and holding device for a contact member or the like including an abutment, and a non-removably mounted clamping 35 member having means embracing the contact member on opposite surfaces thereof to interlock the clamping member to the contact member, and

constructed and mounted to be positively moved by and with the contact member, in the path of insertion and withdrawal thereof. and as the latter is inserted into or withdrawn from the device, to engage and thereby clamp the contact member against the abutment.

2. A combined contact and holding device for a contact including an abutment and a clamping member secured thereto and constructed and mounted to be interlocked to and positively moved by and with the contact in the path of insertion and withdrawal thereof as the latter is inserted into or withdrawn from the device, to clamp the contact against the abutment, the clamping member being mounted to be movable simultaneously towards and along said abutment.

3. A combined contact and holding device for a contact including an abutment, and a clamping member secured thereto and constructed and mounted to be interlocked to and positively moved by and with the contact in the path of insertion and withdrawal thereof as the latter is inserted into or withdrawn from the device, to clamp the contact against the abutment, the clamping member being mounted to be shiftable bodily at an acute angle with respect to said abutment.

4. A combined contact and holding device for a contact member including an abutment and a clamping member engaging the contact member, and secured and guided with respect to, but movable relative to, the abutment, and so constructed and arranged with respect thereto, and with respect to the contact member to be inserted and withdrawn, that the cohesion between the clamping member and the contact member is on all movements of the contact member, certain to be greater than that between the clamping member and the abutment, whereby the contact member is certain to carry the clamping member with it automatically in the path of, and on insertion and withdrawal of the contact member.

5. A combined contact and holding device for a contact member or the like which is adapted to be inserted into and removed from the device repeatedly, including an abutment and a movable clamping member, secured and guided with respect to, but movable relative to, the abutment, and so constructed and arranged with respect thereto, and with respect to the contact member to be inserted and withdrawn, that the cohesion between the clamping member and the contact member is certain to be greater than that between the clamping member and the abutment, whereby the contact member is certain to move the clamping member, automatically, for a clamping action, in the path of and on insertion and withdrawal of, the contact member, the clamping member being automatically opcrativeiy and mechanically connected to and disconnected from the contact member as the latter is inserted into and withdrawn from the device, the clamping member having means for engaging and em bracing the contact member on opposite surfaces and thus creating an interlocking engagement with the contact member.

6. A combined contact and holding device for a contact member or the like including an abutment and a non-removably mounted clamping member movable up and down in a path alongside the abutment, and having means for embracing the contact member on the upper and lower surfaces thereof to interlock the members to each other so that the clamping member will be moved positively by the contact member when the latter is inserted into or withdrawn from the device to engage and clamp the contact member against the abutment.

- WILLIAM H. FRANK.

JOSEPH A. MESSING. PAUL S. JENKINS. 

